Croatia DX

So, this is how you DX in far, far away land of Croatia. Welcome! Here, you can find something about shortwave, something about mediumwave, and something about longwave...I hope you will enjoy it. You can find QSL's here and reception reports, and other stuff about SW, MW and LW. Enjoy!

srijeda, 20. srpnja 2016.

Voice of Greece, transmitting from Avlis, Greece, was logged on 8th of July, and was heard from 18:40 to 18:55 UTC from Sveti Juraj u Trnju, Croatia. (Yes, I took a bit of vacation.) The Voice of Greece came in on 9420 kHz, and SINPO was 55555, considering Voice of Greece transmitter is not that far away from me.

Opereta excerpts were heard during my listening, with orchestra and some excerpts were played a cappella. There was choir of females singing sometimes, and there was one female singing at a time.

petak, 10. lipnja 2016.

Judging from your reports, reception was good last weekend, either because of or in spite of the recent lack of sunspots. These images sent by listeners show that the Saturday transmission at 1600-1630 UTC on 17580 kHz had an especially wide footprint.

This weekend’s VOA Radiogram will again be all MFSK32, and again it will include some Russian – the North Carolina transmitter has been putting a signal into Russia lately.

Here is the lineup for VOA Radiogram, program 167, 11-12 June 2016, all in MFSK32:

The Mighty KBC broadcast to North America is back to two hours this weekend: Sunday at 0000-0200 UTC (Saturday 8 to 10 pm EDT) on 9925 kHz, via Germany. A minute of MFSK32 will be transmitted at about 0130 UTC. Please send reports for this reception to Eric: themightykbc@gmail.com .

DigiDX will transmit DX news in MFSK32 and other modes on its usual schedule: Sunday 2130-2200 on 15770 kHz, and 2330-2400 UTC on 11580 kHz, both via WRMI in Florida. And Monday at 2000-2030 UTC on 6070 kHz, via Channel 292 in Germany. Also listen for DigiDX on 6070kHz (Channel 292) every day at 1830-1900 UTC (co-channel with Vatican Radio) and 0530-0600. Consult http://www.digidx.uk/and https://www.facebook.com/digidx/ for any schedule changes.

The Italian Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) had a good first broadcast of digital on Wednesday. This will be transmitted Wednesdays at 2030-2100 on 6070 kHz, via Channel 292 in Germany, part of the IBC broadcast Wednesdays at 2000-2200 UTC. On 8 June, the modes were MFSK32 at 1500 Hz at 2030-2045, and Olivia 16-500 at 2200 Hz at 2045-2100. I don’t know if those will be the modes on 15 June, so be ready to adjust Op Mode if necessary.

Thanks for your reception reports from last weekend. I’ve been busy this week with audience research projects involving Myanmar and Laos, so I’m farther behind in responding. I hope to send out galleries from program 137 this weekend.

petak, 20. svibnja 2016.

LKB/LLE QSL card (identical to this one, posted by Hugo), was sent to my e-mail on 18th of May, 2016. The LKB/LLE was heard on March 23rd, 2016, on 5895 kHz, with SINPO 32222, heard from SDR receiver in Twente.

Here is the e-mail I received.

Dear radio friend!

Thank you so much for your reception report!Congratulations on a fine catch! We herewith verify your reception as correct of LKB/LLE Bergen Kringkaster, broadcasting over LLE-3, 5895 kHz in the 49 metres SW band. Please take this letter as our QSL.This is an official Norwegian test broadcasting license.In addition to voice IDs in Norwegian, English, Swedish, Czech and and Japanese we have broadcast our morse ID VVV VVV VVV DE LKB / LLE LKB / LLE LKB / LLE. The board members as well as American announcers Ron and Sue, and Norwegian announcer Renate are also heard. We also have broadcast special electronic music composed for the transmissions by Øyvind S.Ask. We also put out instrumental music played by Bjørn Tore Bystrøm on Saxophone.

In addition Radio Northern Star has two other MW frequencies licensed to the site, one of these is often on the air with a different test program on 1611 kHz, 186 metres. This comes from a 65 watt AM/250 watt USB(LLE-4) ex-Marine Skanti TRP-8250 HF and another Inverted V antenna.

I am attaching pictures.

Please publish your reception and our information on as many boards and lists as possible!

petak, 13. svibnja 2016.

You might remember that last year, the BBG, parent agency of VOA, issued a Request for Proposals for the development of a decoder app for VOA Radiogram. There were no proposals, but that might be because of the short deadline. It's possible that the RFQ will be issued again, but only if there is potential interest by developers. So let me know if you are an interested developer.

The specifications in the RFQ would be the same as in the 2015 RFQ, which you can see here ...

The Mighty KBC has a different transmission schedule this weekend: To North America Sunday at 0000-0200 UTC on 9925 kHz, via Germany, with a minute of MFSK32 at about 0130 UTC. And to Europe Sunday at 0800-1000 UTC on 6095 kHz, also via Germany, with the minute of MFSK32 at about 0830 UTC. Reports for KBC reception and decoding to Eric:themightykbc@gmail.com .

Thank you for your reception reports from last weekend. Reception was especially difficult on Sunday due to a solar event. I am now compiling the gallery of MFSK images from program 137, and will try to send that out this weekend.

Early next week I will send information about programs 164 and 165, to be broadcast during the last two weekends of May.

srijeda, 11. svibnja 2016.

While some sources say how All India Radio is about to give up shortwave, I still managed to get a QSL card from them.

All India Radio was heard on March 25th, 2016, from around 21:20 to 21:45 UTC, transmitting from Bengaluru transmitter. Frequency was 9445 kHz.

While AIR transmissions are terribly noisy sometimes, and can make a lot of troubles for other broadcasters to transmit, this was exactly the example here. SINPO indeed was 55555, but the band just looked horrible and this had to be addressed.

The noise from AIR transmitter (heard from SDR in Twente)

It was Good Friday on the very day I listened to the English service, and story of Good Friday was told, as well as announcements for Saturday (next day) were heard.

Reception report was submitted to AIR on the same day. QSL card arrived in the mail on May 10th, 2016.

nedjelja, 8. svibnja 2016.

Radio Latino e-QSL card, received for transmission done on March 19th, 2016, at around 19:30-19:46 UTC, on 7620 kHz. e-QSL received 49 days leter, with sincere apologies for the delay. E-mail sent to radiolatino@live.com.

Europe 24 QSL card arrived, after a long long wait. After an email sent firstly to test6150@yahoo.com, and on 25th of March this year resent to europe24onshortwave@yahoo.com, I finally managed to receive the QSL card. Actually, the real date I reported reception was September 10th, 2015! Frequency was 6150 kHz!

FFC! (Faboulous Flag Counter)

Something about me

Suggests, well, everything but spam, can be sent to : kristian.kolar.iii@gmail.com. Content posted here is usually mine, but the one that is not mine, it is taken with permission. This site uses copyright. For permission, contact me to this same email address.